@jsimmond.bsky.social
Associate prof. at the University of Chile, interested in MDE, SW product lines, and computer science education .. feminist and Latinity co-founder https://users.dcc.uchile.cl/~jsimmond/
Don't be evil?
"Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..."
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
its a mystery
18.05.2025 02:31 — 👍 5250 🔁 1364 💬 26 📌 9
My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?
Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
Salvadoran President Claims He Lacks Humanity To Return Wrongly Deported Man
theonion.com/salvado...
Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale
18.04.2025 22:40 — 👍 3085 🔁 1372 💬 142 📌 64Hi, everyone! We're organizing a workshop on software engineering for functional programming as part of CBSOFT, and we welcome industry papers: bit.ly/SE4FP2025
19.04.2025 15:48 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0My NSF CS for All grant was just terminated (www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...).
Nationwide, we were:
• Improving the quantity + quality of K-12 CS teachers
• Ensuring the sustainability of K-12 CS teacher prep programs
• Ensuring all youth in the U.S. have access to great CS teachers
Training AI with copyrighted works isn't just theft or plagiarism. It's worse: it is a fundamental devaluation of creativity. When you steal something, you're not denying its individual value. GenAI is a form of automated exploitation and devaluation of human labor
19.04.2025 13:10 — 👍 241 🔁 84 💬 10 📌 2So Google's latest consent violation is them generating "AI" audio of your voice in YouTube as an opt-out "service."
Here's how to turn it off (original images reposted with alt text):
Cual es el plazo para que se inscriban a primarias?
18.04.2025 15:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Nate said its app’s users could buy from any e-commerce site with a single click, thanks to AI. In reality, however, Nate relied heavily on hundreds of human contractors in a call center in the Philippines to manually complete those purchases, the DOJ’s Southern District of New York alleges. Saniger raised millions in venture funding by claiming that Nate was able to transact online “without human intervention,” except for edge cases where the AI failed to complete a transaction. But despite Nate acquiring some AI technology and hiring data scientists, its app’s actual automation rate was effectively 0%, the DOJ claims.
tbh, the AI industry is full of fraud, and fraudsters like this
techcrunch.com/2025/04/10/f...
En Chile las mujeres tienen hijos, obvio 🤷♀️
10.04.2025 23:42 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
El equipo chileno globos.get(), integrado por Diego Arias, Gabriel Carmona y Vicente Villarroel, clasificó a la ICPC World Finals 2025 tras conseguir el puesto 15 en el ICPC Latin America Championship 2025, realizado en Brasil.
Continua leyendo en: comunicaciones.dcc.uchile.cl/news/967-uni...
Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including mobile phone numbers, is freely accessible on the internet. By Patrick Beuth, Jörg Diehl, Roman Höfner, Roman Lehberger, Friederike Röhreke und Fidelius Schmid 26.03.2025, 21.20 Uhr
🚨NEW: Major development.
German newspaper Der Spiegel has found phone numbers and passwords for Hegseth, Waltz & Gabbard in stolen data freely published on the internet.
‼️It includes details of Signal accounts.
“It is conceivable that foreign agents were privy to the Signal chat group.”
The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
Again, the richest man in human history personally individually directed this
28.02.2025 22:55 — 👍 9792 🔁 3958 💬 156 📌 92
Informe lapidario. Por María Teresa Ruiz, astrónoma. Premio Nacional de Ciencias Exactas.
22.02.2025 18:27 — 👍 39 🔁 61 💬 1 📌 2
As they say in Chile, ¡bacan!
A periodic table of female scientists featuring @criordor.bsky.social and many others
www.bcn.cl/mujerescient...
I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
10.02.2025 21:00 — 👍 12976 🔁 5519 💬 554 📌 580
Ha sido vocero de damnificado de incendios en Valparaíso, vocero del Paro de Camioneros, y vocero de Comunidades Indigenas (pero no es damnificado de incendios, ni camionero, ni indígena).
Luciano Quintana: las mil caras de un agitador de ultraderecha: www.elmostrador.cl/noticias/pai...
This profile has been scrubbed from the site. Rose Ferreira grew up without reliable electricity, immigrated to NY, then survived homelessness and cancer on her way to NASA. She was so moved by images from the Webb telescope she wept. This is what’s at stake
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Tweet from Scott Jennings, saying "um, yes, that's really a problem," with a quoted image saying "The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality right-wing content. That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well. In essence, people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly aren't usually on our side."
This is why they're attacking science and education: if you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.
08.02.2025 23:49 — 👍 11387 🔁 4277 💬 182 📌 185It's a pain in the ass, since you have to do it app by app, but better safe than sorry
08.02.2025 00:04 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It was always apparent but now it's increasingly undeniable that all these 20-something DOGE employees were chosen not *in spite* of inadequate vetting but *because* they would not pass vetting. Trump & Musk chose the people who seemed the most willing to commit illegal acts on their behalf.
07.02.2025 20:20 — 👍 5001 🔁 1559 💬 137 📌 73Hoy vi una patente TZR... y era un Tesla 😫😫
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Ministra de Ciencia y polémico megaproyecto energético cerca de observatorio Paranal: “Tomaremos una posición activa para proteger la astronomía” www.adnradio.cl/2025/02/05/m... vía @adnradiochile
06.02.2025 20:29 — 👍 15 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 1
